Michael Cohen, former head speechwriter for U.S. Representative to the United Nations Richardson and Senator Chris Dodd, DemocracyArsenal Blog 6/24 ’10, “Looking on the Bright Side of the M4/P4 Swap” http://www.democracyarsenal.org/
Feaver 9/21 ‘9 [Peter, professor of political science at Duke University and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Foreign Policy: Woodward Discloses Troops Needed, 9/21/2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113022583]
Cronin 8 [Patrick M. Cronin, NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES, Irregular Warfare: New Challenges for Civil-Military Relations, http://www.stormingmedia.us/55/5548/A554884.html]
Solvency
Sulmasy and Yoo, ‘7 [Glenn, Judge Advocate, Associate Professor of Law, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and John, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Challenges To Civilian Control Of The Military: A Rational Choice Approach To The War On Terror, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 1815 (2007), http://www.uclalawreview.org/articles/content/54/ext/pdf/6.1-10.pdf
Conflict
Cohen, 1997 [Prof @ Paul H. Nitze school of advanced international studies, “Civil-military relations- are US forces overstreched?”]
readiness
Cohn – Graduate Student in Political Science at Duke – 1999 (Lindsay, "The Evolution of the Civil-Military "Gap" Debate," www.poli.duke.edu/civmil/cohn_literature_review.pdf)
Spencer, Defense and National Security Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, 9-15-2K (Jack, “THE FACTS ABOUT MILITARY READINESS,” Heritage Foundation Reports, N. 1394, P. 1)
Klare ‘9 (Michael, Defense Correspondent and Prof. Peace and World Security @ Hampshire College, The Nation, “The Gates Revolution”, 4-15, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/klare)
Ricks, military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations, 10-21-‘1 (Thomas E. “At Pentagon: Worries Over War's Costs, Consequences; Some Fear Regional Destabilization, Retribution Against U.S.” Washington Post, Lexis)
Frederick Barton and Noam Unger, ‘9. Barton is Codirector, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and Senior Adviser, International Security Program at the CSIS. Unger is fellow and policy director of the Foreign Assistance Reform project at Brookings. “civil-military relations, fostering development, and expanding civilian capacity ,” http://csis.org/publication/civil-military-relations-fostering-development-and-expanding-civilian-capacity.
Unique
Michael Cohen, former head speechwriter for U.S. Representative to the United Nations Richardson and Senator Chris Dodd, DemocracyArsenal Blog 6/24 ’10, “Looking on the Bright Side of the M4/P4 Swap” http://www.democracyarsenal.org/Stephen Biddle, senior fellow for defense policy @ the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kim Barker, press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR Sept 23 ‘9, “U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan” http://www.cfr.org/publication/20283/us_policy_toward_afghanistan.html
Richard H. Kohn, Professor of History of Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, World Affairs Winter ‘8, “Coming Soon: A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations” http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2008-Winter/full-civil-military.html
Seymour Hersh, staff writer @ the New Yorker, The New Yorker Annals of National Security 7/7 ‘8, “Preparing the Battlefield” http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
Sewall and White 9 [Sarah and John P. served in the Defense Department during the Clinton administration and on the Obama Presidential Transition Team. They teach at the Harvard Kennedy School, where they co-direct the Project on Civil-Military Relations, The civil-military challenge, January 29, 2009, http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/29/the_civil_military_challenge/]
Links
Kohn in 08 (Richard H. Kohn, Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina, winter 2008 “Coming Soon: A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations”, //http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2008-Winter/full-civil-military.html//)
Cohen in 97 (Eliot A. Cohen is a professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University USA, Spring 1997, Science Direct-Orbis http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W5V-45MCTRS-42&_user=4257664&_origUdi=B6W5V-45MCTW3-4N&_fmt=high&_coverDate=04%2F01%2F1998&_rdoc=1&_orig=article&_acct=C000022698&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4257664&md5=ab4f40b1551d11312a3ef79a8795f60b)
Eric Talmadge, staff writer for the Associated press, Marine Times 2/19 ’10, “General: Okinawan troops a benefit, not a burden” http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/02/ap_stalder_okinawa_021910/
Eric Schmitt, New York Times staff writer, 6/4/08, NYTimes, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/washington/04gates.html?_r=1&em&ex=1212724800&en=616e073aa51f13ea&ei=5087%0A
Ben Hancock, The Diplomat correspondent and staff writer, 3/2/10, The Diplomat
The problem is, why does the US government want to
Brian Downing, published political and military historian, AT 6/11 ‘8, “Will it be ‘Obama’s War’?” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF11Ak01.html
Kohn in 08 (Richard H. Kohn, Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina, winter 2008 “Coming Soon: A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations”, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2008-Winter/full-civil-military.html)
Ackerman 8 [Spencer, The Washington Independent, 11/13, “Productive Obama-Military Relationship Possible,” http://washingtonindependent.com/18335/productive-obama-military-relationship-possible] [Quals added]
Cirincione 8-10-‘9 (Joe, President of Plougshares Fund , “The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Landmine”,http://www.ploughshares.org/news-analysis/blog/pentagons-nuclear-posture-landmine)
Michael Leon, staff writer @ Veterans Today, Veterans Today 6/27 ’10, “Nothing is Going Right for USA in Final Phase in Afghanistan” http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/27/nothing-is-going-right-for-usa-in-final-phase-in-afghanistan/
Feaver 9/21 ‘9 [Peter, professor of political science at Duke University and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Foreign Policy: Woodward Discloses Troops Needed, 9/21/2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113022583]
Internal LInks
Ackerman 8 [Spencer, The Washington Independent, 11/13, “Productive Obama-Military Relationship Possible,” http://washingtonindependent.com/18335/productive-obama-military-relationship-possible]
Impacts
iraq
Cronin 8 [Patrick M. Cronin, NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES, Irregular Warfare: New Challenges for Civil-Military Relations, http://www.stormingmedia.us/55/5548/A554884.html]
Solvency
Sulmasy and Yoo, ‘7 [Glenn, Judge Advocate, Associate Professor of Law, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and John, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Challenges To Civilian Control Of The Military: A Rational Choice Approach To The War On Terror, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 1815 (2007), http://www.uclalawreview.org/articles/content/54/ext/pdf/6.1-10.pdf
Conflict
Cohen, 1997 [Prof @ Paul H. Nitze school of advanced international studies, “Civil-military relations- are US forces overstreched?”]
readiness
Cohn – Graduate Student in Political Science at Duke – 1999 (Lindsay, "The Evolution of the Civil-Military "Gap" Debate," www.poli.duke.edu/civmil/cohn_literature_review.pdf)
Spencer, Defense and National Security Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, 9-15-2K (Jack, “THE FACTS ABOUT MILITARY READINESS,” Heritage Foundation Reports, N. 1394, P. 1)
terror
Guttari 2003 [Karen, Assistant Proff @ Naval Postgraduate School, “Homeland Security and Civil-Military Relations”, Strategic Insights, Volume 2 Issue 8, Google]
Asym War
Desch, 07 - Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making at Texas A&M's George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, (Michael, Foreign Affairs, “Bush and the Generals”, May/June, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070501faessay86309/michael-c-desch/bush-and-the-generals.html)
Klare ‘9 (Michael, Defense Correspondent and Prof. Peace and World Security @ Hampshire College, The Nation, “The Gates Revolution”, 4-15, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/klare)
Bennett ‘8 (John, Defense News, “JFCOM Releases Study on Future Threats”, 12-4, http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3850158)
Demo
Perry, former Secretary of Defense, 1996 (William, The Trilateral Commission, “Preventive Defense,” 5/13, http://www.trilateral.org/nagp/regmtgs/96/0523perry.htm)
Pakistan model
Weitz, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, 10-28-‘8 (Richard, “Pakistan: Analyzing Civil-Military Relations In Islamabad,” http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav102808_pr.shtml)
Perry, former Secretary of Defense, 1996 (William, The Trilateral Commission, “Preventive Defense,” 5/13, http://www.trilateral.org/nagp/regmtgs/96/0523perry.htm)
Ricks, military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations, 10-21-‘1 (Thomas E. “At Pentagon: Worries Over War's Costs, Consequences; Some Fear Regional Destabilization, Retribution Against U.S.” Washington Post, Lexis)
Frederick Barton and Noam Unger, ‘9. Barton is Codirector, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and Senior Adviser, International Security Program at the CSIS. Unger is fellow and policy director of the Foreign Assistance Reform project at Brookings. “civil-military relations, fostering development, and expanding civilian capacity ,” http://csis.org/publication/civil-military-relations-fostering-development-and-expanding-civilian-capacity.
Aff
Desch, 07 - Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making at Texas A&M's George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, (Michael, Foreign Affairs, “Bush and the Generals”, May/June, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070501faessay86309/michael-c-desch/bush-and-the-generals.html)
Schake, fellow at the Hoover Institution and holds the Distinguished Chair in International Security Studies at the United States Military Academy, 9-4-‘9 (Kori, “So far so good for civil military relations under Obama,” Foreign Policy, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/09/04/so_far_so_good_for_civil_military_relations_under_obama)